The story of Islam as never presented before
Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often
turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from
any female Muslim ruler, Arwa of Yemen reigned alone for five decades.
In nineteenth-century Russia, Mukhlisa Bubi championed the rights of
women and girls, and became the first Muslim woman judge in modern
history. After the Gestapo took down a Resistance network in Paris,
British spy Noor Inayat Khan found herself the only undercover radio
operator left in that city. In this unique history, Hossein Kamaly
celebrates the lives and achievements of twenty-one extraordinary women
in the story of Islam, from the formative days of the religion to the
present.